Toerail fairlead
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superboots
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I have a pair designed to fit the same toerail but closed with side rollers I was going to fit to my Moody which has long since been sold. You can buy new but are very expensive. If you don't find any others you can pm me but I am away for some time
Paul1962
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I think Force 4 market toerail fairleads
rogerthebodger
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MikeCC
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Looks like a YS type. Don't think they are made any longer but you may find some around. Usually expensive.
Iliade
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Mine are closed loops and don't like being loaded by rope from above. Hence I got a local stainless steel smith to fabricate one in s/s for me. He sand blasted it and it was a perfectly adequate visual match for the original and a lot stronger.
Ones like yours would be pretty easy to cut from a solid block of aluminium. Woodworking tools generally suffice.
Worst case, it is not rocket science to cast and anodise your own...
Ones like yours would be pretty easy to cut from a solid block of aluminium. Woodworking tools generally suffice.
Worst case, it is not rocket science to cast and anodise your own...
Daydream believer
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What are you in for? Drugs, robbery, assault, fraud?
Refueler
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Holy Smoly ... 230 quid + tax ???
rogerthebodger
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That's why I design and make my own fittings as there are too many markups on marine fittings
Refueler
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I asked my metals pal and he reckoned he could make that for about 50 euros for me !! OK - the metal would be 'scrap' he has excess from contracts.
Alex_Blackwood
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Refueler
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I like the Osculati roller versions .....
I have plain fairleads in my fwd toerails and I have already had a chafed line through port side ......
I had 'hose-pipe' protectors but they wouldn't stay in place ...
I'm thinking about fitting folding cleats to outer side of toerails ...
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Daydream believer
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Fairleads can be more trouble than they are worth. I tend to lead any ropes straight over the side from the cleats. There is less chance of chafe & less squeeking when moored in a rolly pontoon berth. Of course, if the rail is timber, then wear on the timber can look unsightly, so best avoided
rogerthebodger
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These are the side deck fairleads of stainless steel.
The base bolts onto a stainless plate welded of bolted through the deck so the fairlead can be easy removed to re polish or repair.
No sharp edges where th rope rub on the vertical supports of on the deck edge
My deck edge cleats are in fact bollards
The base bolts onto a stainless plate welded of bolted through the deck so the fairlead can be easy removed to re polish or repair.
No sharp edges where th rope rub on the vertical supports of on the deck edge
My deck edge cleats are in fact bollards
ricardio
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"I had 'hose-pipe' protectors but they wouldn't stay in place ..."
Three hefty cable ties on the line at 120 degree spacing just below the hose pipe will keep it in place. Particularly good for lines left permanently on the pontoon at your home berth.
"I had 'hose-pipe' protectors but they wouldn't stay in place ..."
Three hefty cable ties on the line at 120 degree spacing just below the hose pipe will keep it in place. Particularly good for lines left permanently on the pontoon at your home berth.
Refueler
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The pipes were quickly added when I first brought the boat over ... then we had a storm go through and line parted ..
As to what we do as a more standard measure - is still being worked out as I may not use that berth again .. I may choose the Baltic Moor section of the 'Marina' ....
The cleat / fairlead / toerail design of the boat is not the best ... if you look back at the picture posted ...
Martin_J
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Those IBS ones and all of the other photos above seem to show fairleads that need the horizontal deck part of the toerail removing as well (since they form the deck part as well as the upright.
In the original post, I see that the cutout is only needed on the vertical part of the toerail...
In the original post, I see that the cutout is only needed on the vertical part of the toerail...
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Martin_J
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I've just noticed that the toe rail fairleads on the Moody S38 are more similar to the original post.. I'll see if the the Moody library has any more info..
Martin_J
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The Moody Owners forum seems to suggest they were made by SL Yachting, based near Chichester. Their website doesn't really work but others have had luck contacting them via Facebook..
Martin_J
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For future reference, I'll add a list here. Looks like SL are the only UK manufacturer and manufactured for Moody, Sigma, Parker, Prout and Rustler..
https://www.sl-yachting.com/about
https://www.sl-yachting.com/about
